Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British Isles for the same reason that French Canada always prefers immigrants from Latin countries: "It is Ontario's desire that in the increase of [Canadian] population there should be as high a proportion as possible of British stock." An office has already been set up in Toronto to funnel immigrants to waiting jobs. The big problem, George Drew admits, is shipping. He was in London to do something about...
...Toronto last week, the Globe & Mail's Columnist Jim Coleman wrote her an open letter: "We read in the public prints where some acorn named Avery Umbrage, who lives down in the Excited States, is trying to have you expelled from the amateur ranks because you accepted a nice yellow Buick phaeton as a gift. . . ." Amidst the commotion, Prime Minister Mackenzie King reassured his people; he guaranteed to the Commons that everything possible was being done to safeguard Barbara...
...reached clear to the Maritimes. In staid Ottawa, 500 Lisgar Collegiate Institute students paraded to Parliament in a driving, cold rain, waving soggy placards: "Candy is dandy, but eight cents ain't handy," and "We'll eat worms before we eat eight-cent chocolate bars." In Toronto and Montreal, demonstrations got tangled with the Communist-inclined National Federation of Labor Youth, which tried to take over. Dominion retailers were trapped between high wholesale prices and higher juvenile tempers...
...served in the R.C.A.F. during the war, writing Air Force radio scripts in Toronto and a documentary film, Vi, in England...
...helping hands of Corwin and Welles were not proffered without a little arm-twisting from Markle. He peppered Corwin with mail, and when Corwin was in Toronto, played recorded shows for him. Corwin, enthusiastic and polite, got CBS interested in Markle, who was given a chance to flex his muscles on three Columbia Workshop dramas last summer. Then, with Corwin's backing, he joined the network...